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Videoconferencing in your Classroom

Videoconferencing is:
Conducting a conference between two or more participants at different sites by using computer networks to transmit audio and video data.


Curriculum Benefits:

Communication is a key learning skill and students using videoconferencing can gain opportunities for higher level thinking via live face-to-face interaction with peers, tutors or experts from around the world.

Possible Uses:
  • professional development of staff
  • collaborating effectively in real time
  • mentoring individual students
  • creating dialogue between foreign language students
  • holding a global 'show-and-tell'
  • talking to international experts
  • sharing experiences with students from different cultures
  • enhancing travel buddy projects
  • discovering alternative views about the news
  • learning about remote environments
  • enhancing distance learning

Getting Started:
  • Classroom Conferencing
    Global SchoolNet USA
    Provides a contact point for teachers using videoconferencing software such as CU-SeeMe and NetMeeting to connect communities, cultures, and classrooms so that students around the world can learn and collaborate together.

  • Easy Video Conferencing in Schools
    Keith Lightbody WA
    Contains a practical article clearly explains why you might want to use video conferencing in school and how to go about it.
    Updated 7th Feb. 2008
  • Global Leap
    Director: Mike Griffith UK
    Global Leap aims to provide an initial videoconferencing experience for teachers and their classes then facilitate, coordinate and link videoconference users throughout the world.


  • Moose on the Loose
    Donna Smith, Maine USA
    Donna uses videoconferencing to extend her yearly travel buddy projects in her Grade 1 class.
  • Videoconferencing in the Classroom:
    Communications technology across the curriculum

    Arnold, Tim; Cayley, Steve and Griffith, Mike (2002) Devon County Council, UK
    This book suggests that videoconferencing offers enormous potential for enriching children's learning and offers practical suggestions for classroom teachers with minimal technical knowledge to get started with videoconferencing.


  • PDF Icon Videoconferencing in the Early Years: Try It, You’ll Like It [82KB PDF File]
    Donna Smith, Maine USA
    Donna's experiences with videoconferencing based on an article first published in Technology Focus, Vol. 4, No. 2, 2002 pp. 19-20.

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